From: Alexander McMillan <alexandermcmillan@...>
Date: 2012-11-17T18:42:35+09:00
Subject: Re: following along with "Beginning Ruby."

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Use FileUtils to delete entire folder/directory - Ruby itself will not dele=
te directory if files inside

> Date: Sat=2C 17 Nov 2012 14:02:53 +0900
> From: lists@ruby-forum.com
> Subject: Re: following along with "Beginning Ruby."
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
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> I tried to delete a directory that I created.
>=20
> Dir.delete("C:/Users/Al Baker/Documents/Programming/RuBy/NewDir")
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> and got this:
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> Errno::EACCES: Permission denied - C:/Users/Al=20
> Baker/Documents/Programming/RuBy/
> NewDir
>         from (irb):62:in `delete'
>         from (irb):62
>         from C:/Ruby193/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
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> --=20
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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